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System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. Galaxybase vs. GeoMesa vs. Milvus vs. STSdb

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NameArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Graph DBMSSpatial DBMSVector DBMSKey-value store
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Score3.32
Rank#90  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitearangodb.comgalaxybase.comwww.geomesa.orgmilvus.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.arangodb.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTubeInstagram
DeveloperArangoDB Inc.Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司CCRi and othersSTS Soft SC
Initial release20122017201420192011
Current release3.11.5, November 2023Nov 20, November 20214.0.5, February 20242.3.4, January 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and JavaScalaC++, GoC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionStrong typed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
Go
Java
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptuser defined procedures and functionsnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infosince version 2.0Shardingdepending on storage layerShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with configurable replication factordepending on storage layernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
Immediate Consistencydepending on storage layerBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesRole-based access controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
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Specific characteristicsGraph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesConsolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosNative multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersCisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsVery permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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